I took the driftwood and all the snails out, then thoroughly boiled the wood... most of the snails died. I think I see some snail eggs, should I take them out?

Would it be helpful to mention that my GH is 1? I noticed when I picked out some of the snails their shells were very soft and easily got crushed. When crushed, **** came out, it was awful... I think I'm going to reset the whole thing or buy some dog dewormer. Any ideas how the stuff got in? I did some lab experiments at school the other week on planaria, and these don't look like them. Just to be safe I still want to nuke the place.

There are certain types of internal parasites that cause growths like that in snails. The growths aren't the actual parasite. I don't remember what they are called, but I remember reading about them in my parasitology class.

Great! Good luck! Best new soil and everything. You should bleach the tank, cycle it in your filter so it can get rid of all the "yuck". Treat it the same way as you would with bacteria infection for best results. It would be terrible if you had to clean out the whole tank, get new soil, etc. and some eggs or young ones in your filter survives and gets into the tank :/

I think I might nuke the whole tank because the worms are EVERYWHERE. What should I do? Maybe I can do a water change with boiling water after turning off the filter? I'm going to remove the snails, then shoot them.

The weird thing is, the worms don't appear to be alive. I sucked some up with a syringe and all they do is sink, not moving. They are also easily ripped apart.

Try remove the infected snail and keep the shrimp in a temporary tank. Put in couple tetra or other aggressive fishes and let them munch on the leech, worm, and others.

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